Ross wrote: > Gaah, nevermind everybody. I spent all night on this yesterday, and within 5 > minutes of asking for help I find the solution lol. > > If anybody else hits this, you need to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, to tell it to > use DNS lookup for hosts: > > change the line "hosts: files" > > to "hosts: dns files" > > If the OpenSolaris devs are around, it would be really handy if the Network > GUI tool could add this whenever you add a DNS server entry.
When you manually configure an address, most of the helpfulness behind that GUI (the nwam daemon) is disabled. It doesn't want to get in your way. That's intentional. I agree that it would slightly lower the number of service calls from new users if the system could detect that you've set up /etc/resolv.conf and automatically modify /etc/nsswitch.conf for you, but there are perfectly legitimate cases in which you would intentionally set up one and not the other (or at least not list "dns"), so it might be hard to do this in a way that doesn't end up annoying or just plain breaking existing users. The better answer, I think, is to set up DHCP. It's pretty helpful. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
